Senator Loren Legarda joined her kasimanwa today in opening an exhibit on the life and legacy of Vicente Rendon Gella, her great grand uncle, the educator, lawyer, judge, and former governor of Antique, whose 170th birth anniversary falls this year.
Held at the Old Session Hall of the Antique Old Capitol, the exhibit traces Gella’s lifelong commitment to education, the roads and communities he built as governor, and his friendship with Dr. Jose Rizal during their student years in Manila. It […]
Amid national mourning over the tragic shooting at San Jose National High School in Tacloban City, Senator Loren Legarda urged the public to look beyond simple explanations and treat the tragedy as a warning about deeper and interconnected challenges facing Filipino children and youth today.
Legarda said the Tacloban tragedy should be seen as a symptom of broader issues affecting Filipino youth, not as an incident that can be explained by one factor alone.
I am deeply saddened by the tragic shooting at San Jose National High School in Tacloban City, where three young lives were lost and seven others were injured. This tragedy comes at a deeply alarming time, following recent incidents of violence involving students in other schools.
I extend my heartfelt condolences to the families of the victims and offer my prayers for the swift recovery of those who were wounded. Ipinagkakatiwala ng bawat magulang ang kaligtasan ng kanilang mga anak sa […]
WILHELMSFELD, GERMANY – Speaking from Wilhelmsfeld, where José Rizal once longed for home and completed the novel that awakened a nation’s thirst for independence and self-determination, Senator Loren Legarda called on Filipinos to carry forward the national hero’s unfinished vision of freedom and dignity.
At Rizal Park during the commemoration of Rizal’s 165th Birth Anniversary, Legarda said Rizal should be remembered not as a figure of mourning, but as a living force whose ideals of freedom, dignity continue to guide the […]
To our friends from Wilhelmsfeld, Knights of Rizal, dear fellow Filipinos, and to all other guests, Guten Morgen.
There are many ways to honor a great man – in monuments, in street names, in the lessons we teach our children. But every so often, a place offers something far more meaningful. It lets us walk where he walked. That is why we are all here. We did not come to Wilhelmsfeld to just speak about Dr. Jose Rizal from a […]
